Resources

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Euphrates recommends these resources for learning more – and getting inspired! This page is supplemented with our homepage “Spotlight” where we feature new people and organizations all the time. Check back often!

Organizations

Partners for Peace
Parents Circle- Families Forum
Peace Players International
Seeds of Peace
OneVoice Movement
Middle East Institute
CSIS Mid-east
Middle East Forum
AMIDEAST
Foundation for Middle East Peace
Americans for Middle East Understanding
American Task Force for Lebanon
The Jerusalem Fund
Institute for Palestine Studies
Just Vision
J Street
Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED)
United Religions Initiative (URI)

Blogs

Healing Iraq
Girl Blog from Iraq
Middle East blog by Juan Cole
Iraq Slogger
Middle East Political Cartoons

News

Al-Bab.com
Christian Science Monitor
BBC Online Middle East coverage:
Common Ground News Service
Al-Jazeera News
Jerusalem Post
The Independent Middle East coverage
Middle East International
Middle East Report
New York Times
Ha’aretz (Israel)
Daily Star from Lebanon
Al Ahram Weekly from Egypt

Feature Stories

PBS Documentary on Arab talk show, “Sweet Talk”
BBC feature “Young in the Arab World”
NPR feature, “How Heavy Metal is Working Its Way into Islam”
NPR interview of featured individuals in Encounter Point documentary
Christiane Amanpour’s CNN Special “God’s Warriors”

Studies and Initiatives

A Common Word
Charter for Compassion
U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project: Changing Course
Revisiting the Arab Street
World Economic Forum West-Islamic Dialogue
2010 Arab Public Opinion Poll

Resources

Middle East Books
Columbia University
 Middle East and Islamic Studies
Iraq: Pro-Con
If Americans Knew

Maps

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east.html
http://www.mideastweb.org/maps.htm

Reading List For CELL Abroad

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